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keywords: european theater, white cliffs of dover, british home guard, amphibious beach landing, british commando raid, pacific theater, pacific island beachhead, seabees in action, president franklin d. roosevelt, prime minister winston churchill, dictator joseph stalin, dieppe raid

Synopsis: The Allies employ lessons learned from from the failed Dieppe Raid or Operation Rutter in how critical logistics and support in a successful beach landing as well as tactics used by the assaulting troops with scenes of of the White Cliffs of Dover, British Home Guard, German fortifications along the coast of Occupied France, troops making beach landing under fire, British battleship under way, British commando raid, amphibious training, an invasion of a Japanese-held island, troops and equipment on a beachhead, SeaBees construction battalion building and airstrip, beachhead at Salerno Italy, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Dictator Joseph Stalin, scenes of the Dieppe Raid and more...(read more)

  • Date: 1940's
  • Duration: 00:21:29
  • Sound: No
  • Color: Monochrome
  • Type: Public Domain
  • Language: English
  • Location: European Theater, Pacific Theater

The Battles For The Beaches

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WWII The Battle For The Beaches Reel-1

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r1:00:00:39;15

View of the White Cliffs of Dover, surf breaking upon rocky coastline. England prepares for war. Civilians loading sand bags and erecting sand bag parapets around buildings, CU shot of the British Home Guard initially Local Defense Volunteers or LVD troops marching up road carrying rifles. CU of two Home Guard troops manning a machine gun, view of machine gun emplacement. CU Home Guard trooper standing along coastline looking out at sea. LS looking out across English village. Home Guard walking along barbed wire fence erected on outskirts of village.

r1:00:01:04;18

German fortifications along the coast of German occupied France showing camouflaged gun position, observers, heavy concrete, coastal gun positions. German officer talking to other officers. Workers building large concrete structure to house a German coastal gun. Workers handling a German 40.6 cm SK c/34 Adolfkanone Adolf naval gun. CU German anti-aircraft gun positions along coastline.

r1:00:01:31;07

U.S. Marines making a beach landing under fire, wading through the surf, running across beach amid explosions. CU of bodies of dead soldiers lying in ditch along road. CU of 3-star Lieutenant General Mark Clark in England conferring with other officers in late 1942.

Crew of a B-25 Mitchell bomber being congratulated by General Douglas MacArthur. Smiling Jack nose art on B-25 bomber.

r1:00:02:01;09

Scenes of landing crafts LCVP or Higgins boat going toward shore. Front ramp of landing craft drops and soldiers rush out of landing craft. Hitting the beach from a landing craft Higgins boat. CU sign reads Dunkerque. Anti-aircraft gun on English ship as camera pans showing British troops on shore line waiting evacuation in bg. LS across open terrain at several British tanks on cliff along coastline.

r1:00:02:43;12

German Dictator Adolf Hitler looking through binoculars across the English Channel at the coastline of England and the White Cliffs of Dover. Hitler walking with staff officers. Shows large German coastal gun firing. View across English Channel at the White Cliffs of Dover from German occupied Europe.

r1:00:03:10;05

British English soldiers lining up in formation in open area, with barracks in bg. English British Home Guard doing manual of arms. Observer in a coastal defense observation post in England Britain. Head-on shot of a British battleship underway toward camera, scene of an aircraft carrier in bg.

British sailor on a ship looking through binoculars. CU of a Supermarine British Spitfire in flight. LS Spitfires diving through the sky. B-26 Martin Marauders passing directly over camera plane. CU of B-26 Martin Marauder aircraft in flight over water, British insignia on side of B-26 Martin Marauder aircraft. Aerial view of target city and harbor. CU of bombs being released from bomb bay, ground explosions. GSAP ring sight, B-26 aircraft strafing a ship at sea.

r1:00:03:53;19

CU treads of fast moving German tank. Front view German tank coming toward camera with crew members standing open hatches of tank. German half-track loaded with German troops towing a field artillery gun.

r1:00:04:10;07

British commando raid on German occupied Europe. British commandos landing along shoreline and dashing across rocky terrain. LS across flat open terrain showing German Communication Tower and Building, explosion blowing installation apart. LS across water at three huge gas tanks showing explosion and flame. CU construction of building showing framework being blown up, flame and smoke rising from area. British commandos aboard Higgins boat pulling away from shoreline, smoke in far bg.

r1:00:04:31;08

Japanese troops aboard a ship flying a Japanese flag. Japanese loading into invasion barge. Japanese invasion of an island in the Pacific. Japanese soldier advancing up over concrete parapet, heavy columns of black smoke rising in bg. Japanese Rising Sun flag tied to rifle carried by Japanese soldier. Map depicting Japan's Asia-Pacific war in WWII.

r1:00:04:51;06

America plans for war was a focus on amphibious invasion of Pacific Islands occupied by Japan and German occupied Europe. United States Capitol building and the Navy Department building in Washington D.C. in the early 1940s. Naval commanders in conference. Group of Army officers looking at a map on a table. Group with small maps using a large wall map to point out location. Army officers planning an island invasion. Arrow sign reads Naval Research Lab. Naval Research Laboratory showing naval officers conferring with civilians technicians discussing invasion, with blueprints on the table. Naval Research Laboratory personnel at desk planning the invasion. CU Naval technicians operating instrument used for testing of ships structure. Hydrodynamic study of ship structure. Conference room showing army and navy and air force personnel discussion invasion.

r1:00:05:40;18

Large crowd of U.S. civilian defense workers on a pier, cut to workers inside a steel mill, cut to a CU of milling machine cutter blade. Building of landing crafts (Higgins boats). Launching of landing craft from dry dock. Shows several LCT's Landing Craft Tanks at anchor near pier, tug in immediate fg. Workers crowding rail of tank landing craft LCT 340 and LCT 341.

r1:00:06:16;0

Amphibious invasion training of U.S. soldiers. Soldiers practice climbing down cargo nets from a high structure imitation ships and practice rushing from a wooden model of an invasion landing craft. Soldiers riding in models of landing crafts mounted on jeeps. Live fire training. Soldiers crawl across muddy ditch with machine gun fire overhead and shells bursting in the area. CU, American soldier G.I. laying in prone position across barbed wire entanglement, other soldiers using this G.I. as a stepping stone to cross a barbed-wire entanglement. CU several combat soldiers holding rifles which are used as a ladder for other soldiers to jump over a barbed wire entanglement.

r1:00:07:31;08

Invasion convoy of ships underway at sea. Destroyer escort going through convoy and an aircraft carrier underway. Quick shots taken aboard ship showing sailors performing duties, gun operators sitting in turrets, men on deck of ship lounging around. Infantry soldiers sitting around on deck of ship at sea. Several shots of the officers standing on bridge of ship. CU ship gun turrets. CU sailors scanning sea for enemy ships or planes. CU aircraft spotters scanning sky with binoculars.

Japanese planes attack a convoy of ships. Grumman F4F Wildcat navy fighter planes taking off from deck of aircraft carrier. CU ship anti-aircraft guns firing, shows anti-aircraft bursts in sky. Japanese fighter diving through anti-aircraft fire toward deck of aircraft carrier. CU quad-mounted Bofors anti-aircraft guns firing. Shows Japanese plane hit.

r1:00:08:26;19

Dramatic scene of Japanese plane shot down in WWII. CU barrels only of anti-aircraft guns firing. Sailors on flight deck duck for cover as Japanese Zero is hit, disintegrates into a fireball just missing the ship and crashes into the sea.

r1:00:08:55;23

A model of the island to be invaded is used as an officer points out the different invasion beach landing areas. CU officers discussing the invasion maneuvers. CU sailor communicating between ships using a blinker light. CU deck of aircraft carrier showing elevator bringing up fighter aircraft from hangar deck below flight deck. Scenes taken at dusk showing F-4F planes taking off from aircraft carrier flat top. Men preparing for invasion aboard ship showing Higgins boat being lowered from side of cargo ship. Men going down cargo net into Higgins boat. LS freighter anchored at sea, Higgins boat alongside. Marines in camouflage uniforms going down rope ladders into the Higgins boat. CU Army officer, General, scanning horizon with binoculars. Naval barrage as destroyers and battle ships fire all guns. CU guns of battleships firing. LS coastline with heavy columns of black smoke rising in area. U.S. planes strafing Japanese Navy seaplanes, base hangar buildings and aircraft stationary in front of hangars near the water. GSAP scenes of the strafing of Japanese aircraft on ground of airfield. GSAP view of U.S. fighter plane shooting down a Japanese aircraft, explosion of same. LS taken from water, showing unidentified aircraft falling in flames in back of Higgins boat, pulling in toward coastline.

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WWII The Battle For The Beaches Reel-2

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r2:00:00:01;07

Invasion of Japanese held Pacific island. Intense combat footage. Shows LVT Landing Vehicle Tracked Alligator loaded with Marines headed to shore. CU of Marines in LCVP landing craft personnel or Higgins boat. Landing craft ramp drops and Marines rush out. CU of Marines firing a 50 Cal machine gun. Marine fires M1 Garand rifle with bayonet attached. Marines pinned down on beach. Marine firing a Thompson sub-machine gun.

r2:00:00:41;15

Marines climbing down cargo nets into landing crafts or Higgins boats from a WWII troop transport ship troopship. Unloading weapons and equipment from a cargo ship into Higgins boat. Higgins boat pulling away from ship loaded with shells for artillery. Invasion ships moving in toward shoreline. Marines unloading on beachhead. Shows a LVT Landing Vehicle Tracked Alligator moving away from beachhead. Marines taking shelter behind parapet wall firing weapons at Japanese positions. Marines firing machine gun, Marine uses flame thrower against entrenched Japanese position. Intense jungle fighting on a Japanese occupied Pacific island.

r2:00:01:16;22

Men and equipment on beachhead. Marines unrolling wire mesh matting on the sand. Weapons carrier with mounted 50 Cal. Machine gun driving over wire mesh on beach to reach solid ground. Marine using flame thrower. Two marines bringing in a Japanese prisoner. MS several Japanese prisoners taken by the marines during the invasion. Command post showing man cranking hand generator, others using phones. Tank, truck, driving off LCVT landing craft. Shows LST anchored off shore. Several shots along shoreline showing tanks, trucks, jeeps, weapon carriers, artillery, men and equipment on beachhead. Demolished four engine Japanese flying boat in water off-shore.

r2:00:02:41;08

SeaBees building an airstrip on captured Japanese island, grader and bull dozier at work. Navy pilot jumping down from wing of aircraft after landing on airstrip. Name of pilot on Mae West lifejacket Owens. CU men standing at attention, parade formation, fatigue clothes, saluting as American flag is raised over captured island. Remains of Japanese shrine on captured island. CU body of dead Japanese lying in jungle area. Small ravine showing bodies of many dead Japanese.

r2:00:03:16;14

MS surf breakers coming in toward shore. Shows a convoy of Liberty ships cargo ships underway at sea. British troops marching along pier. Formation of B-24 Consolidated Liberator bombers. Bombs falling, ground explosions. Paratroopers bailing jumping out of aircraft. Aerial scene of landing craft headed toward shore. Troops disembarking from USS LCIL-36 landing ship probably during the Salerno, Italy landing September 1943. Italian soldiers walking up small hill holding white flag on pole. Captured German soldiers standing near building, German soldier with Hermann Goring armband on sleeve and wearing Iron Cross medal.

r2:00:04:11;09

Animated map showing invasion route from Sicily to Italy. Beachhead at Salerno , Italy November 1943, troops coming onto shore. Jeeps, men and various other equipment on beach, landing craft pulling into shore, landing troops and supplies, tanks, trucks, men and equipment all being unloaded from vessels along the shoreline. Temporary bridges erected out to the landing craft showing tanks driving across same. MS landing craft at anchor off shore. LS taken from hill position, looking down on beachhead at Salerno and the town of Salerno Italy, showing bombs exploding near American landing craft out in water. Direct hit upon landing craft, landing craft sinking. Several quick shots taken from shore out at sea showing American cargo ships and landing craft off-shore, bombs exploding in water near the ships. LS American ship burning off-shore. MS tanks coming up from shore. Shows tank driving through Salerno.

Animated map showing advance of American forces to the Winter Line after invasion of Italy. Shows route of Operation Shingle the American amphibious landing at Nettuno, Italy. Italian people welcoming the American forces.

r2:00:06:03;11

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek and his wife sitting in front of various VIPs from their countries. This was at the Cairo Conference, codenamed Sextant, November 1943. CU President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin sitting on porch of large building. This was at the Tehran Conference, codename Eureka, in late November 1943.

Tanks and trucks driving up road mostly obscured in dust being raised by vehicles. Russian infantry advancing across snow covered fields and through snow covered village in blizzard conditions using horses to draw sleds of supplies across the terrain. LS down long row of B-17 Flying Fortress bombers nose-to-tail in take-off position. CU of B-17s in flight, bombs falling from aircraft bomb bay, bombs exploding on large airfield target.

r2:00:07:15;12

CU medics administering first aid to wounded soldier, digging out a wounded or dead person from mud. CU medics using rubber raft to evacuate wounded soldiers from jungle area. Australian medic leading a blinded soldier from very muddy jungle area. Australian troops holding funeral service in jungle area, showing grave markers, Chaplain reading from Bible.

r2:00:07:51;11

Scenes of the Dieppe Raid also known as the Battle of Dieppe, official code-name Operation Jubilee, that took place on the German occupied Northern coast of France on August 19, 1942.

Sign reads Dieppe. LS fighter aircraft buzzing and diving down across harbor area of German occupied port city of Dieppe, France. German anti-aircraft guns firing. LS explosion of gas tanks in dock area. Animated map of planned amphibious landing of Allied Forces, with air and naval support, at Dieppe, France.

German infantrymen lying in grassy field firing rifles and artillery pieces. LS demolished U.S. tanks on invasion beach. Several quick shots of demolished tanks and landing craft along the shore of the invasion beach. Bodies of dead Canadian, British and American soldiers on the beach. Two German soldiers searching invasion vessels, one drinking can of beer found in one of the boats.

Captured British and Canadian soldiers being marched down the street of Dieppe, France escorted by German soldiers. Wounded British or Canadian soldier being carried down street by four other soldiers. CU face of wounded soldier, eye covered with blood. MS four British or Canadian soldiers walking down street. Street scene showing surrendering British and Canadian soldiers. Surrendering British and Canadian soldiers being escorted along country road. LS city of Dieppe, France and coastline. French civilians going about their business in Dieppe, France. Men, women and children walking in the city. Pan shot of the harbor area of Dieppe, France.

r2:00:09:07;11

Framework for concrete that will house and support a German coastal gun emplacement along the German occupied coast of France in WWII. Several quick shots of various types of guns and their mountings, camouflaged gun positions, guns being raised into firing position. CU view of the barrel-end of one of the German coastal guns.

German military vehicles moving through a German town, large half-track vehicle towing a trailer loaded with large coastal gun. High angle shot down upon bow of unidentified ship plowing through heavy sea. Large submarine fleet underway at sea. CU guns of battleship firing. A Higgins boat underway. CU Marines on-board a Higgins boat or landing craft. Quick shots showing invasion troops hitting the beach.

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